Lesson 12: Greek Verb-Forming Suffixes

Question 1

-ize

Answer 1

to make, to treat, to do something with (e.g. carbonize)

Question 2

-ate

Answer 2

to make, to treat, to do something with (e.g. carbonate)

Question 3

-AGRA

Answer 3

painful seizure (e.g. melagra)

Question 4

BRACHI-

Answer 4

arm (e.g. brachiopod)

Question 5

CENTE-

Answer 5

to puncture (e.g. enterocentesis)

Question 6

CHIR-, CHEIR-

Answer 6

hand (e.g. dyschiria)

Question 7

CEL(I)-, COEL-, -COEL

Answer 7

cavity, abdominal cavity (e.g. coelom)

Question 8

DENDR-

Answer 8

tree (e.g. dendrite)

Question 9

HYAL-

Answer 9

glass, vitreous body of the eye (e.g. hyaloid)

Question 10

LARYNG-

Answer 10

larynx (e.g. laryngopathy)

Question 11

LEI-

Answer 11

smooth (e.g. leioderma)

Question 12

MALAC-

Answer 12

soft (e.g. malacology)

Question 13

MASTIG-

Answer 13

whip, flagellum (MASTIX) (e.g. mastigium)

Question 14

MIS-

Answer 14

hate (e.g. misogamy)

Question 15

PTER-, PTERYG(I)-

Answer 15

wing, fin (e.g. diptera)

Question 16

SCHIZ-, SCHIS(T)-

Answer 16

to split (e.g. schist)

Question 17

SPLANCHN-

Answer 17

entrails, viscera (e.g. splanchnodiastasis)

Question 18

THI-

Answer 18

sulfur (e.g. thibacteria)

Question 19

THORAC-

Answer 19

chest, thorax (e.g. hemothorax)

Question 20

TOX-

Answer 20

poison (e.g. cytotoxin)

Question 21

TRICH- (THRIX-)

Answer 21

hair (e.g. tricholith)

Question 22

XER-

Answer 22

dry (e.g. xeric)